Tuning in and Speaking out in Damascus

INTERVIEW BY ELISABETH EAVES | JULY 1, 2005

Austria Puts out Its Firebrand

BY ANTON PELINKA | JULY 1, 2005

The Sick Men of Europe

BY RICHARD BYRNE | MAY 5, 2005

Bridging the Bosphorus

Turkey's decades-long desire to join Europe has prompted vast political reforms, and its negotiations for European Union membership are finally under way. Mensur Akgün, foreign-policy director of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation in Istanbul and associate professor at the Istanbul Kultur University, discussed the literary backdrop for Turkey's changing times with FP.

BY VERENA RINGLER | MAY 5, 2005

Egypt's Tortured Present

BY SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM | MAY 5, 2005

Is Wealthier Really Healthier?

BY TODD J. MOSS | MARCH 1, 2005

Mind Sharing

BY GRAHAM DUTFIELD | MARCH 1, 2005

What They're Reading: Memoirs of the Middle Kingdom

The Chinese were printing books five centuries before Johannes Gutenberg published his first Bible. To find out how Chinese literary tastes are adapting to the new millennium, FP spoke with Gao Chuanxian, the former vice director at the Bureau of International Trade and Economics of the Xianning Municipal Government in Wuhan.

INTERVIEW BY YONG LU | MARCH 1, 2005

The Winter of Discontent

BY SIMON GIKANDI | MARCH 1, 2005

Sobering Economics

BY CHRISTIAN E. WELLER | JANUARY 5, 2005

Democracy in Arabic

BY STEVEN A. COOK | JANUARY 5, 2005

War and Peace in Zagreb

In 1991, Croatia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia helped spark the Balkan wars. Led for nearly a decade by a nationalist president, the small republic now seeks to join the European Union. FP spoke with Nenad Popovic -- the director of Zagreb's Durieux publishing house, known for its support of young authors and exiled writers -- to learn how Croatians are reconciling their post nationalist future with their recent past.

JANUARY 5, 2005

Air France

BY MARTIN WALKER | JANUARY 5, 2005

Heat-Seeking Missives

BY CHRISTA S. CLAPP | NOVEMBER 1, 2004